Internal affairs: Investigating the Brucella intracellular lifestyle

FEMS Microbiology Reviews

Volumn 36, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 533-562

  von Bargen, Kristine ^a,b   Gorvel, Jean Pierre ^a,b   Salcedo, Suzana P ^a,b  

^a CENTRE D IMMUNOLOGIE DE MARSEILLE LUMINY   (France)

^b CNRS   (France)

Author keywords

Bacteria; Brucella containing vacuole; Brucellosis; Pathogenicity; Trafficking; Type IV secretion system

Indexed keywords

BACTERIUM LIPOPOLYSACCHARIDE; GLUCAN; VIRB PROTEIN;

APOPTOSIS; BACTERIAL IMMUNITY; BACTERIAL VIRULENCE; BRUCELLA; BRUCELLA ABORTUS; BRUCELLOSIS; CELL CYCLE; CELL DEATH; CELL DIVISION; CELL FUNCTION; CELL MATURATION; CELL MIGRATION; CELL VACUOLE; DENDRITIC CELL; ENDOPLASMIC RETICULUM; GENE CONTROL; GENE EXPRESSION; HOST CELL; HUMAN; INTRACELLULAR SIGNALING; LIFE CYCLE; MACROPHAGE; NONHUMAN; PATHOGENESIS; PHAGOSOME; REVIEW; T LYMPHOCYTE ACTIVATION; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION; TROPHOBLAST; TYPE IV SECRETION SYSTEM;

ANIMALS; BACTERIAL SECRETION SYSTEMS; BRUCELLA; BRUCELLOSIS; CELL DEATH; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; HOST-PATHOGEN INTERACTIONS; HUMANS; VIRULENCE FACTORS;

ANIMALIA; BRUCELLA; NEGIBACTERIA;

EID: 84859423430     PISSN: 01686445     EISSN: 15746976     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1574-6976.2012.00334.x     Document Type: Review

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